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Nordic tours

Memories of Norden, a 25 day bicycle tour of Sweden and Norway near midsummer 1994, by Dave Dermott
• Part 1: Copenhagen to Motala
• Part 2: Vättern Rundan
• Part 3: Motala to Norway
• Part 4: West to the Home of Giants
• Part 5: Oslo to Copenhagen
• Norden 1996, The Return by David Dermott
  David does it again. His now complete report of his 1996 Nordic bicycle trip consists of five chapters:
  • Swinging through Telemark, Norway
  • Denmark
  • Shivering in Sweden
  • Tripping in Troll-land, Norway
  • Rallarvegen and More, Norway
• Around the Baltic Sea by Catherine McCammon
  "I cycled around the Baltic Sea from mid-June to mid-July 1996, starting in Stockholm and going clockwise, finishing in Stockholm a month later. It was a great trip!"
• Ostsee Umrundung (in German) by Peter Alteheld.
  The report of a 37 days (from July 21, 1994 to August 26, 1994), 4240km tour of the Baltic See along the route: Hamburg - Schleswig/Holstein - Denmark (Border-Frederikshavn) - Norway (Moss-Ostby) - Sweden (Sorsjoern-Grisslehamn) - Aland-Island (Eckeroe-Mariehamn) - Finland (Naantali-Helsinki) - Estonia (Tallinn-Valga) - Latvia (Valka-Bauska) - Lithuania (Salociai-Lazdijai) - Poland (Sejny-Kostrzyn) - Brandenburg - Berlin - Magdeburg - Hannover - Paderborn
• Lightweight touring around the Kattegat by Svein Høvik.
  "A 1203 km tour in Norway, Sweden and Denmark in May 1996."
• Hønefoss-Oslo-Gothenburg-Copenhagen 1995 by Svein Høvik.
  "The "tradition" of going to Copenhagen in May started in 1992 when we took the ferry from Oslo to Frederikshavn and cycled via the Danish mainland Jutland. However, with only 350 km this tour became too little of a challenge after 2 times. Therefore, in 1994, we did our first trip to Copenhagen via the Swedish West Coast."

Denmark

• Cycling in Denmark by David Dellinger. Includes General Information, Fyn and Aero, Copenhagen and the Island of Bornholm.
• Wienerbrød Days: A Danish Cycling Holiday by David Foster, from the Bicycle Touring Select
• A Bicycle and Ferry Trip Through Denmark Story by Michael Shapiro. Photos by Gary Schwartz and Michael Shapiro
• Family Touring in Denmark 1995 (the less up-to-date local version of Family Touring in Denmark 1995 is still available) by Svein Høvik.
  "After a successful biking holiday in the northern parts of the Danish mainland Jutland in 1993, we wanted to see Djursland and Sealand in 1995. The starting point was Hobro by the Mariager Fjord. We [a family of 5] had one Burley d'Light trailer for Trine [4 years old] and her personal luggage, and relatively large panniers on all 4 bicycles."

• A Brief Report on Off-Road Biking in Denmark (in November), by Mikkel Bech Frandsen
• Mountain Biking in Denmark, carried to you by DAB, i.e. Dansk Akademisk Bjergsportsklub (Danish Academic Mountain Sports Club)
• Lundby Krat, Aalborg by Mikkel Bech Frandsen

Finland

• January 1994 "[...] four months of illness and recovery (and no cycling) at the end of 1993 evaporated whatever fitness I used to have. I was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis (a rheumatoid disease of the spine) and for a while it looked like I might not be cycling again. [...] It is overcast and not so cold (- 8 C) on January 23"
• February 1994 "Sunday February 27 was another glorious winter day here, Jyvaeskylae, Finland, above the 62th parallel: clear blue sky, sparkling snow and the sun low above the horizon. Time for a bike ride. [...] The temperature is very pleasant, -9 C, the wind unpleasant, in my face."
• March 1994 "Sunday March 13 appears uninspiring. The sky is grey. The snow is dirty. There is slush, it is +1 C. The breakfast newspaper is dull, the oatmeal bland. Finland is depressing. What can save the day? A bike ride!"
• April 1994 "Spring was on its way, finally. With the arrival of April, I had discarded studded tires and other winter equipment. Riding had been chilly and dirty, the scenery bleak but then the snow really started melting and the ice fishers were driven off the lakes (or drowned). Monday, April 25 was a pretty day for my traditional 100 km spring test run. "
• May 1994 "The dark forest envelops me and welcomes me home. Telephone poles have large heaps of squirrel-processed cones at the bottom. Large boulders speck the forest floor, remnants of the ice age. [...] At home I feel happy at my first "century" after nine months of ankylosing spondylitis."
• June 1994 "The rain is relentless in beating against me. There is no way of enjoying the scenery but my memory tells me it is rather nice. [...] At times the rain falls down ever harder, the drops hurt my face and my bell keeps ringing faintly. I see no other cyclists. Sissies."
• July 1994 "It was Thursday, June 7, and I found myself in Lappeenranta, a town of some 60,000 inhabitants in southeastern Finland, only about 20 km from the Russian border. [...] So, on a most beautiful hot summer day, I set out on my own, panniers fully loaded, to the northwest and Jyvaeskylae, where I live."
• August 1994 "Saturday, August 13, was a nice day, none too cold. The summer of Central Finland was gradually coming to an end but one could still wear shorts and other summer stuff for cycling."

Norway

• Bicycling in Lofoten by Susanne and Ole Jacobi
  "In 1993 Susanne and Ole Jacobi went on a bicycle tour in Lofoten and Vesterelen in Northern Norway. This succession of WWW pages consists of watercolours made on the journey with some comments regarding bicycling on the rocky islands." This is not your ordinary text-cum-pictures report!
• Tour des Fjordes -93 A recumbent ride from Bergen (Norway) to Motala (Sweden) with Richard Freytag, Charles Clinton and Ian Feldman, from the pages of Torsten Lif, which contain several other reports
• See the Cycling Page of Jørn Yngve Dahl-Stamnes at Trondheim, which includes reports on the Great Trial of Strength
• A short trip from Norway to Russia by Ulf Berntsen
• Cyclo-camping au pays des Vikings (in French) by Hélène et Dominique Farcy
  Four weeks, 2500km, 30000m gain... a great ride in a great bicycle touring country.

Sweden

• Vätternrundan,
  "the biggest exercise race on bicycle in the world"
• Tjej-Vättern,
  "one of the biggest exercise on bicycle only for women"